"I say you have inhaled too much smoke. You have been smoking too much."
"Oh, that. Yes, I expect I have."
She looked at him with a twinkle in her eye as she sat on the arm of his chair, holding to the back with her hands.
"Tom, I'll bet you are a great hero."
"I'll bet I'm not."
"I'll bet you are, and are too modest to admit it."
"Too modest to admit what?"
"Too modest to admit the heroic things you have done."
"I never did any."
"Yes, you did. I know you saved two or three people's lives at the risk of your own."